Motorola XPR 5550 manual Vote Scan

Vote Scan Contacts Settings

Advanced Features

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Vote Scan provides you with wide area coverage in areas where there are multiple base stations transmitting identical information on different analog channels.

Your radio scans analog channels of multiple base stations and performs a voting process to select the strongest received signal. Once that is established, your radio unmutes to transmissions from that base station.

The yellow LED blinks and the vote scan icon appears on the status bar.

To respond to a transmission during a Vote Scan, follow the same procedures as Responding to a Transmission During a Scan on page 33.

Contacts provides “address-book” capabilities on your radio. Each entry corresponds to an alias or ID that you use to initiate a call.

Each entry, depending on context, associates with one of five types of calls: Group Call, Private Call, All Call, PC Call or Dispatch Call.

PC Call and Dispatch Call are data-related. They are only available with the applications. Refer to the data applications documentation for further details.

NOTE: If the Privacy feature is enabled on a channel, you can make privacy-enabled Group Call, Private Call, and All Call on that channel. Only target radios with the same Privacy Key OR the same Key Value and

Key ID as your radio are able to unscramble the transmission.

See Privacy on page 59 for more information.

Additionally, Contacts menu allows you to assign each entry to a programmable number key or more on a keypad microphone. If an entry is assigned to a number key, your radio can perform

a quick dial on the entry.

Your radio supports two Contacts lists, one for Analog contacts and one for Digital contacts, with a a maximum of 500 members for each Contacts list.

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